Power quality enhanced operation and control of a microgrid based custom power park

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This paper describes the operation of a microgrid that contains a custom power park (CPP). The park may contain an unbalanced and/or nonlinear load and the microgrid may contain many distributed generators (DGs). One of the DGs in the microgrid is used as a compensator to achieve load compensation. A new method is proposed for current reference generation for load compensation, which takes into account the real and reactive power to be supplied by the DG connected to the compensator. The real and reactive power from the DGs and the utility source is tightly regulated assuming that dedicated communication channels are available. Therefore this scheme is most suitable in cases where the loads in CPP and DGs are physically located close to each other. The proposal is validated through extensive simulation studies using EMTDC/PSCAD software package (version 4.2).

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Ghosh, A. and Majumder, R. and Ledwich, G. and zare, F. 2009. Power quality enhanced operation and control of a microgrid based custom power park, in - (ed), 2009 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Dec 9 2009, pp. 1669-1674. Christchurch, New Zealand: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ).

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2009 IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA 2009)

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